Ernst Werner (sports journalist)

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Ernst Werner (* 1899 ; † after 1978) was a German sports journalist and anti-Semitic author .

Life

Ernst Werner was born in 1899. In 1924 he became editor-in-chief of the Berlin Football Week ; he was able to fulfill this function until 1944. In 1957 he went to the Lübeck weekly newspaper Sport-Megaphon , where he first worked as editor-in-chief and until 1978 as a freelancer during his retirement.

He was also chairman of the Association of German Sports Journalists .

anti-Semitism

Werner expressed himself anti-Semitic even before the National Socialists came to power . In 1928, during the Football Week, he wrote about Hugo Meisl , head coach of the Austrian national team: "In the plenum, Hugo Meisl, the Viennese Jew, is one of the greatest card mixers with the suppleness of his race and its corrosive spirit." The football historian Rudolf Oswald described Werner because of his attitudes, which also enabled him to continue working under the Nazis, as a "Radau-Antisemit". In 1941 Werner described the attempt by the Jewish brothers Ernst and Otto Eidinger to establish a game company alongside the DFB as a project of "Semitic cunning".

Even after the end of the National Socialist dictatorship, Werner was able to continue writing without restrictions,

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